Eligibility

The Asia Mobile Awards (‘The AMOs’) 2019 are open to all eligible mobile industry, companies and organisations in the broad ecosystem and adjacent industries serving Asian markets with mobile communications services, products, devices and applications, as defined in the individual category eligibility sections in each category (most are eligible to the very broad mobile ecosystem, including both GSMA members and non-members). All apps, products, services, solutions, initiatives etc. entered must be supportive of, be deployed over or accessible through mobile networks.

All products or services submitted for the AMOs must have been commercially available in at least one Asian market or territory (except where trials and pilots are eligible as per the individual category eligibility descriptions) by end March 2019.

Products, apps, services, initiatives, campaigns etc. entered can be developed, manufactured anywhere in the world, but must be available in one or more market in Asia.

All products, devices, applications, services, solutions or initiatives submitted must utilise, be supportive of, deployed over, or accessible through mobile (or cellular) connectivity based on open industry standards.

Agreement

The ‘Rules of Entry’ as defined here for the Asia Mobile Awards 2019 (“Rules”) incorporate the Awards General Terms & Conditions. The Terms shall govern in event of conflict. You agree to be bound by the Rules and Terms by submitting an entry for the Awards.

Awards Deadline and Closing Date

The final closing date for entries to the Asia Mobile Awards is Wednesday, 10th April 2019 (at 5pm CST).

Entry Form Submission

Entries must be submitted online via this website with credit card or bank transfer of the appropriate fee.

Language

Entries will only be accepted when submitted in the English language only. When uploading supporting files, to accompany entries (supporting materials) please ensure that they are in English. Videos in other languages are acceptable with English subtitles.

Entry Acknowledgement

Following electronic confirmation of receipt of the entry form by the GSMA, you will be emailed with an Entry Reference Number. This number should be stated on any payment details or queries.

Multiple Entries

There is no maximum number of entries permitted from a single organisation. You can submit as many different entries to as many categories as you would like. However, each individual entry submitted is liable to a separate entry fee.

Entry Fees

Entry fees are payable for each entry submitted, for categories (except for 4YFN Award Shanghai) as follows

$100 USD per entry by GSMA Members/Associate Members

$120 USD per entry by Non GSMA Members

Note:
All categories are open for submission here, except Outstanding Contribution to the Asian Mobile Industry which are by Judges’ nomination only.

For queries regarding payment, please contact [email protected] if credit card payment is not possible you can complete a bank transfer, bank details can be found here. Please ensure you mark your payment with your Entry Reference Number, which you are provided with once your entry is submitted when making payment.

Entries will not be processed until full payment has been received.

Payment & Closing Date

Complete entries must be received and paid in full by the final deadline date to be considered. Entry fees paid by international money order must be received, together with the completed entry form, prior to, or by the final deadline of Wednesday, 10th April 2019 (at 5pm CST).

Entry fees are payable for each entry submitted, as above. One entry is defined as a submission proposing a product, service, initiative or company for one Award category or sub-category. Entry fees are non-refundable. A secure online payment system is provided by Secure Trading.

Additional Supporting Materials

Additional on-line documents are accepted for each category. Video submissions are strongly recommended to help our judges significantly in terms of visualising the use case and understanding the innovation and user benefits.

For category: Best Mobile service for Connected Living in Asia, we request entrants to please provide a link to where the app can be downloaded on one of the main app stores, or your website and a redemption code for free access (if the app is not free) so that our judges can download and experience the app for themselves.

For category: 4YFN Award Shanghai, the entry submission and judging process will be managed by the 4YFN team, please refer to the criteria and eligibility on the 4YFN entry form.

Three x web pages (which should be very specific to the entry) linked by URLs

Video: Please provide a URL link to your video (e.g. via YouTube, Vimeo, Youku or other public, English language video platforms) on the entry form and if required, please make sure you provide a password. Videos should ideally be in the English language or with English subtitles.

Other supporting information to a maximum of three x 1 page documents, could consist of independent information or data, extracts from analysts’ reports, testimonials or press articles, graphics etc. to support your entry. Please do make sure this supporting information is succinct and clear.

Web pages: If pointing judges to a website within your supporting materials or entry, please include a URL which is to very specific information relating to your entry, up to a maximum of three web pages, as judges will not have time to search websites looking for the pertinent information.

The on-line entry form includes an upload facility for you to provide the above links and documents. You will have the ability to upload three additional files to accompany your entry up to a maximum file size of 5MB each. These can be pdfs, jpegs, word documents or PowerPoint, but please, as above, keep these relevant to your entry and keep the pages to a minimum of one per document.

Judging Process

Entries will be judged on the basis of the information provided to the independent judging panel on the entry form and additional supporting materials in accordance with stated category requirements.

The decision of the judges is final. Details of the judging panel meetings will not be disclosed, nor will correspondence be entered into by the GSMA regarding validation or qualification of entries or the decision of the judges.

At the time and date of entry, entrants agree that the information supplied is truthful and accurate. In the event of disqualification of an entrant, through the provision of inaccurate information or materials, the entry will be disqualified and entrants will not be notified.

Confidentiality

Entries will be treated by the GSMA as strictly confidential. Only details of the award winners and a shortlist of selected commended or nominated entries in each category will be published prior to, or after the presentation. Please note however that entries are judged by external journalists, analysts and many others for which we simply cannot guarantee confidentiality, so please do not submit information or materials within them that you do not wish to have in the public domain (see also “Promotion” below).

Winners

The decision of the judges is final. No correspondence will be entered into. The nominees will be notified, and announced publicly in a press release during June 2019, prior to MWC19 Shanghai. The Asia Mobile Awards presentation will take place on Wednesday, 26th June 2019, unless otherwise notified.

Promotion

By entering the GSMA’s Asia Mobile Awards, companies are expressly authorising the GSMA to use the specific text, video and visual materials submitted for the purposes of promoting the GSM industry in GSMA presentations, reports for publication, web site and media activities as well as all other forms of promotional/publicity materials post the awards event.

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